Everyone for years said that Jeb was the the most presidential of the Bush brothers. I have never seen it. For one when he speaks its like he has to shit and he's afraid to put any emphasis on anything or he'll lose his mud. He has no inflection in his voice and he always sounds like he's reading. He has the posture of a 90 year old man. He has been given far too much credit for his term as governor of Florida. In his time Florida became one of the lowest income states in the country. Florida saw it's first negative population growth in 80 years and seniors were no longer retiring to Florida like they once were. The drug companies had republican protection from regulation and Florida held out on a state-wide prescription tracking program and therefor became the #1 pain pill state in the country. You could doctor shop all you wanted and there was no record of how many Vicodin you picked up at Walgreen's or CVS.
But now he's beating that tea party drum that we need to turn back the clock the the 50s when girls who had babies out of wedlock were publicly shamed. He even referred to the basis of the story of the "Scarlet Letter" from the fucking 1850s!!!!! where women were required to wear a red, large letter A if they were adulterers. And get this, in 2001 as governor of Florida, he declined to veto a very controversial bill that required single mothers who did not know the identity of the father to publish their sexual histories in a newspaper before they could legally put their babies up for adoption. I mean really? WHAT THE FUCK! I wonder if he would have been okay if his daughter who was caught trying to fill a prescription from a stolen prescription pad was publicly shamed if he had not been governor??? How much trouble did she get in for that again?
This is what the next republican nominee had to say:
"One of the reasons more young women are giving birth out of wedlock and more young men are walking away from their paternal obligations is that there is no longer a stigma attached to this behavior, no reason to feel shame. Many of these young women and young men look around and see their friends engaged in the same irresponsible conduct. Their parents and neighbors have become ineffective at attaching some sense of ridicule to this behavior. There was a time when neighbors and communities would frown on out of wedlock births and when public condemnation was enough of a stimulus for one to be careful."
But now he's beating that tea party drum that we need to turn back the clock the the 50s when girls who had babies out of wedlock were publicly shamed. He even referred to the basis of the story of the "Scarlet Letter" from the fucking 1850s!!!!! where women were required to wear a red, large letter A if they were adulterers. And get this, in 2001 as governor of Florida, he declined to veto a very controversial bill that required single mothers who did not know the identity of the father to publish their sexual histories in a newspaper before they could legally put their babies up for adoption. I mean really? WHAT THE FUCK! I wonder if he would have been okay if his daughter who was caught trying to fill a prescription from a stolen prescription pad was publicly shamed if he had not been governor??? How much trouble did she get in for that again?
This is what the next republican nominee had to say:
"One of the reasons more young women are giving birth out of wedlock and more young men are walking away from their paternal obligations is that there is no longer a stigma attached to this behavior, no reason to feel shame. Many of these young women and young men look around and see their friends engaged in the same irresponsible conduct. Their parents and neighbors have become ineffective at attaching some sense of ridicule to this behavior. There was a time when neighbors and communities would frown on out of wedlock births and when public condemnation was enough of a stimulus for one to be careful."
